Echobusters

Audio Emporium has been hunting feverishly for room treatment products for YEARS. The good news is, we’ve found the answer. Now a little about the chase!

Most of us have rectangular rooms. They are typically comprised of drywall walls that are very lively. Most of us have carpet and some furniture to absorb SOME resonance. But, the typical listening room is not very good. If you go to Skywalker Ranch (I’ve been) and listen to their theater and spiel, they’ll tell you they want NO resonance or reverb in your room because THEY PUT the amount of ambience in the recording that they want. They don’t want you to bugger it up with a room as lively as a gymnasium! That said, the Skywalker theater is completely dead, all surfaces everywhere- your words stop a foot in front of your face.

Can you imagine telling your wife “We’re going to carpet the entire room honey.”? She would love it on the walls and ceiling, no doubt. The cost would be THOUSANDS and because of the nature of sound, carpet doesn’t help bass boom and a number of other characteristics.

We experimented with Sonex and several other materials over the years. There was NO good way to mount the stuff- “You want us to GLUE that 2x2’ chunk of foam to the wall?!” RPG diffusion panels cost more than your speakers. There just wasn’t a good way to deal with the problems of room resonance. Hence we told customers to drape the room as much as possible- it would help at some frequencies. Even so, a 8’ long, 8’ tall run of heavy pleated drapes runs about $1k. If you do 3-4 walls, 3-4k.

Echobusters
Here’s a solution that WORKS and is logistically a BREEZE!

Echobusters makes several products.

Echobusters ABSORB sound - they are typically placed behind your speakers and on the side wall - you want to kill that first reflection especially!
Cornerbusters ABSORB sound in corners which routinely megaphone.
Doublebusters ABSORB and REFLECT in a random fashion. Doublebusters are best behind your listening position.
Bassbusters DRINK up bass boom. Put one behind each speaker.

Mounting Echobusters and Doublebusters requires one tiny nail - hang them like pictures and you’re done! Bassbusters sit right on the floor. Cornerbusters have self adhesive or can be nailed in.

The ideal set up for most lively rooms is: $2110

The Cornerbusters go in the corners. Duh.
Kill the first reflection with two of the Echobusters.
Put the other Echobusters on the wall behind the speakers.
The two Doublebusters go behind your listening position on the back wall.
The two Bassbusters go in the corners, on the floor behind the speakers.

We find that customers invariably end up with the above package after starting in stages!

Stop in to see and hear how we’ve used them. We’ll give you all the mounting logistics if you do business with us!